| Date: | Thursday 31 December 1970 |
| Time: | 23:10 |
| Type: |  Nord 262E |
| Owner/operator: | Rousseau Aviation |
| Registration: | F-BNGB |
| MSN: | 2 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1963 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 30 / Occupants: 30 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 90 km NNE off Algiers, Algeria -
 Mediterranean Sea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Algiers-Dar el Beida Airport (ALG/DAAG) |
| Menorca-Mahón Airport (MAH/LEMH) |
A Nord 262 went missing over the Mediterranean Sea after the pilot issued a distress call. The airplane was en route between Algiers, Algeria and Menorca, Balearic Island, Spain. The airplane carried that Air Liquide football team for a New Year's day match in Menorca.
Sources:
Star-News - Jan 2, 1971
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